🌪️ Blowing Winds, Roaring Thunder - This Summer, It's a Wild Ride!
Prepare for thepotential severe weather systems expected during summer's season.
Feels like Mother Nature's unleashed her fury, what with storms raging, thunder roaring, and trees trembling. It's gotten a lot of people sweating bullets, uncertain about their own safety. And today, we're curious, folks: Does the wild weather this summer send chills down your spine?
In our previous poll, we reached out to over a thousand B.Z. readers and asked: "How much waste do you produce each week?" An impressive 1685 of you stepped up! Revealing results show that over 70% of you are either weekly or bi-weekly trash farmers. The other 26%? You're eco-warriors, producing barely enough waste to fill a bin before the collection day rolls around. A fearless 4% confessed that you're too busy or too lazy to deal with trash and give it to someone else in your family to handle.
Inside Scoop 🔍
Here's why everyone seems to be going nuts about the weather this summer:
🌪️ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted a particularly hectic hurricane season for 2025. They envision a stormy scenario, with a range of 13 to 19 named tropical storms. Of those, expect a minimum of 6 to storm the land as hurricanes, with 3 to 5 of them potentially wreaking catastrophic damage. So, buckle up, because it could be a bumpy ride! This forecast has travelers and residents hunkering down, bracing themselves for extreme weather impacts.[3]
🥵 The summer of 2025 also promises scorching temperatures and smothering heatwaves that could fry you alive. With the heat index spiking, health risks soar, from heatstroke to heat exhaustion, as well as electrical grid vulnerabilities. With a double whammy of heatwaves and storms on the horizon, folks are on high alert, focused on weathering the storms, so to speak.[1][4]
This summer's predicted weather pattern, with its potential for intense hurricanes and scorching heatwaves, has many people on edge, leaving them anxious about the safety of their homes and health due to the increased risks of heatstroke, heat exhaustion, and electrical grid vulnerabilities. In our latest poll, we asked our readers how the unexpected wild weather this season affects them, and it seems over 70% of them are affected, producing more waste as a result of hurricane preparation and clean-up efforts.
